SOC / Purple Team Testing
Often, the best way to improve the “blue” team is to work hand-in-hand with the “red” team. This turns into a “purple” teaming engagement, where the red team runs common attack scenarios, such as malware uploads, file extractions, network attacks, and much more with the goal of improving blue team baselining and detection capabilities.
What is Purple Teaming?
A Purple Team is a function designed to enhance the information sharing between—and the ultimate effectiveness of—an organization’s Red and Blue teams.
Why a Purple Team?
Although they share a common goal, blue and red teams are often not well-aligned, which leads to organizations not leveraging the full value of their team expertise. They typically report to a as a “third” team; think of it as a concept aimed at bringing the red and blue teams together to create purple team exercises.
Red teams and blue teams should be encouraged to work as a joint team, to share insights beyond just reporting, to create a strong feedback loop, and to look for detection and prevention controls that can realistically be implemented for immediate improvement.
Falconer Security’s dedicated penetration testing team is highly qualified, possesses advanced certifications, and is equipped with the labs, tools, and methodologies necessary to consistently deliver quality, accurate, detailed, and meaningful results.
Benefits from a Purple Team
More effective vulnerability detection
Sometimes a breach can take place with the attacker bypassing all defenses, and the blue team doesn’t even notice it happening. This doesn’t necessarily indicate a lack of skill or technology on the blue team’s part, but rather the complexity of the attacker’s techniques or the sophistication of their attack vectors.
The purple team exists to eliminate this possibility. Red and blue teams working together means engaging in constant knowledge transfer and simulating real-life attack scenarios. This way, the red team will enhance the organization’s vulnerability management process while the blue team gets into the attackers’ mindset, to develop better incident response programs and vulnerability detection processes.
Healthier cybersecurity culture
As we’ve said before, the goal for both red and blue teams is to improve an organization’s security defenses, just as it’s the organization’s goal to foster a healthy company cybersecurity culture. With purple teaming, the first incentive is strong, regular communication between offense and defense, a constant flow of information and symbiotic work.
Again, a purple team doesn’t have to be a newly assembled team, it can function as an exercise between the two existing teams. What’s important is encouraging communication and collaboration between team members, to promote constant improvement of the organization’s cybersecurity culture.
A better security posture
The final and most important benefit is a better security posture for your organization. Without purple teams’ constant communication, regular security audits, new defense techniques, threat hunting, vulnerability management and development of improved security infrastructure and policies, organizations wouldn’t stand a chance against malicious actors. After all, every team, whatever their color, is there to help you better prepare for any cyber threat that comes your way.
Falconer Security's Approach
Falconer Security leverages industry standard methodologies to ensure a thorough and comprehensive test is conducted under safe and controlled conditions. Falconer Security’s reports are content rich, regularly stand the scrutiny of regulatory requirements, exceed expectations of auditors, and frequently receive the praise of our customers. Falconer Security does not simply validate automated scans.
Purple Teaming Methodology
- We begin every engagement with a friendly chat to better understand your company’s cyber security goals.
- A security engineer and project manager will be assigned to assist in crafting phishing campaigns.
- Carry out social engineering testing via general phishing, spear phishing, and vishing attacks.
- Observations and recommendations collected and formatted into an executive report – including steps towards remediation.
The purple team exists to eliminate this possibility. Red and blue teams working together means engaging in constant knowledge transfer and simulating real-life attack scenarios. This way, the red team will enhance the organization’s vulnerability management process while the blue team gets into the attackers’ mindset, to develop better incident response programs and vulnerability detection processes.
What You Will Get:
